Python + Oauth2 for Twitter Status Updates

Andrew Bolster

Researcher at the University of Liverpool, Founder/Director at Farset Labs

Working on the Farset Labs Big Red Button for space occupancy, had to find a simple way to tweet a status. This is a post to remind myself and anyone else who has dived through hundreds of incorrect, out of date, or inapplicable examples of Oauth 2 with Twitter using a pre-generated auth-token pair.